Property market
The five-year median is £118,750 from 2 recorded sales in ME1 2LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Medway is £296,182 in June 2026, up 1.1% year on year.
ME1 2LU
Rochester East & Warren Wood · Medway · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochester
- Local authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood
- Postcode district
- ME1
- Postcode sector
- ME1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ME1 2LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ME
- Postcode district
- ME1
- Postcode sector
- ME1 2
- Latitude
- 51.367791
- Longitude
- 0.502472
- British National Grid easting
- 574,293
- British National Grid northing
- 166,164
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Medway · E06000035
- Electoral ward
- Rochester East & Warren Wood · E05014464
- Parish or community
- E43000030
- Westminster constituency
- Rochester and Strood · E14001447
- Output area
- E00081470
- Lower layer super output area
- Medway 024A · E01016116
- Middle layer super output area
- Medway 024 · E02003337
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore ME1
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 70a, The Fairway, Rochester, ME1 2LU | 5 June 2026 | £170,000 |
| 70a, The Fairway, Rochester, ME1 2LU | 18 April 2023 | £67,500 |
| 64a, The Fairway, Rochester, ME1 2LU | 15 June 2021 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 90
- Primary
- 56
- Secondary
- 15
- 381 m
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
Academy converter
- 395 m
Delce Academy
Academy converter
- 404 m
The Thomas Aveling School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,550
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 930
- Shoplifting 400
- Anti social behaviour 292
- Criminal damage and arson 212
- Other theft 187
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- ME1 2 residents
- 14,791
1 female, 5 male
Age bands in ME1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
2,705 residents
1,507 residents
3,898 residents
3,899 residents
2,496 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ME1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
21
within 5 km
CITY WAY SURGERY
65-67 CITY WAY, ROCHESTER, ME1 2AY
ODS code G82051
776 m
MAIDSTONE ROAD SURGERY
262 MAIDSTONE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 6JL
ODS code G82139
1.2 km
THORNDIKE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LONGLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME1 2TH
ODS code G82095
1.4 km
BORSTAL VILLAGE SURGERY
25 WOULDHAM ROAD, BORSTAL, ROCHESTER, ME1 3JY
ODS code G82711
1.5 km
BRYANT STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
29 BRYANT STREET, CHATHAM, ME4 5QS
ODS code G82631
2.1 km
THE CHURCHILL CLINIC
94 CHURCHILL AVENUE, CHATHAM, ME5 0DL
ODS code G82697
2.3 km
KING GEORGE ROAD SURGERY
52A KING GEORGE ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0TT
ODS code G82108
2.4 km
THE KINGS FAMILY PRACTICE
30-34 MAGPIE HALL ROAD, CHATHAM, ME4 5JY
ODS code G82753
2.5 km
STONECROSS AND WEST DRIVE SURGERY
25 STREET END ROAD, CHATHAM, ME5 0AA
ODS code G82113
3.0 km
COURT VIEW SURGERY
2A DARNLEY ROAD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2HA
ODS code G82203
3.2 km
MATRIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
10A BEACON HILL, LUTON, CHATHAM, ME5 7JX
ODS code G82719
3.2 km
MARLOWE PARK MEDICAL CTR.
WELLS ROAD, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 2PW
ODS code G82708
3.3 km
APEX MEDICAL CENTRE
GUN LANE, STROOD, ROCHESTER, ME2 4UW
ODS code G82679
3.4 km
THE GLEBE FAMILY PRACTICE
VICARAGE ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 5UA
ODS code G82129
3.4 km
REACH HEALTHCARE
WALDERSLADE VILLAGE SURGERY, 62A ROBIN HOOD LANE, CHATHAM, ME5 9LD
ODS code G82161
3.7 km
NAPIER ROAD SURGERY
151 NAPIER ROAD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 4HH
ODS code G82763
3.9 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FERRY ROAD, HALLING, ROCHESTER, ME2 1NP
ODS code G82106
4.4 km
PRINCES PARK MEDICAL CTR
SUNLIGHT SURGERY, SUNLIGHT CENTRE, GILLINGHAM, ME7 1LX
ODS code G82741
4.4 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL PRACTICE
33 BELL LANE, BURHAM, ROCHESTER, ME1 3SX
ODS code G82234
4.6 km
WOODLANDS FAMILY PRACTICE
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, WOODLANDS RD, GILLINGHAM, ME7 2BU
ODS code G82014
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Fairway
BCT · Rochester
- 0.0 miles
The Fairway
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Hawser Road
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
Hawser Road
BCT · Rochester
- 0.1 miles
The Tideway
BCT · Rochester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Medway 024A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,880 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
90 open schools are in scope, including 56 primary and 15 secondary schools. Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School is the nearest published school at 381 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,550 published events cover 12 months, averaging 212.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 930 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.